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*The Making of Americans. Being a History of a Family's Progress (1925)
 
*The Making of Americans. Being a History of a Family's Progress (1925)
 
*The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
 
*The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
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*Paris France (1940)
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Fragment of ''Paris France'': ''"I was only four years old when I was first in Paris and talked french there and was photographed there and went to school there, and ate soup for early breakfast and had leg of mutton and spinach for lunch, I always liked spinach, and a black cat jumped on my mother's back..."'' [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0871401606/ref=sib_fs_bod?ie=UTF8&p=S00B&checkSum=gARlXeHP5dIgt0%2F5Y6fdN2czK6kQ%2BKzDmIgz%2FOxJNZ4%3D#reader-link More]
    
==='' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas''===
 
==='' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas''===
 
Stein's autobiography, her first and most successful effort after a long series of failures, was recounted from the perspective of her lover, Alice B. Toklas.  This quirky approach, which broke the only real rule of writing an autobiography, was initially engaged upon for the money alone.  The fame and success it brought Stein enabled her to bring to light her previous works, which had been mostly ignored by the public at large despite their disproportionate influence.
 
Stein's autobiography, her first and most successful effort after a long series of failures, was recounted from the perspective of her lover, Alice B. Toklas.  This quirky approach, which broke the only real rule of writing an autobiography, was initially engaged upon for the money alone.  The fame and success it brought Stein enabled her to bring to light her previous works, which had been mostly ignored by the public at large despite their disproportionate influence.
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